This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Women that begins with:

How shall she know the worship we would do her?
The walls are high, and she is very far.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedecX afafgg cccchh iiiiaa dhdhiX fhfhii ijijXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11110101110 0111110101 11010101100 0101000101 11010101010 11111101010 11010111110 11010111010 01001111010 110010101110 10111111010 1011111011100 11100101110 1101110101 11110100100 1101110100 11110110010 01110011011 111100101010 11110100001 11010011010 10111011100 1101110111 0110011101 11100001111 1111110011 11010101111 11010001001 111001101010 110001110010 0111010011 0111011101 0111011101 1001010101 0001011111 1111110101 1111110111 1111111111 0111111101 1101011011 10111110101 10010010011 1111101111 1101000101 010101001 0101010111 1101000101 1101001111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, that, by, her, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words go, by, if are repeated.

    The author used the same word by at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Song Of The Women;
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  • history of its creation;
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